[Dragaera] Does house discrimination=racism?

[S. Hall]

>From: "Jeff" <Log0n5150 at hotmail.com>
>To: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net>, <dragaera at dragaera.info>
>Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Does house discrimination=racism?
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:57:47 -0700
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>From: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net>
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>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:17 AM
>Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Does house discrimination=racism?
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> > On 12:02 PM Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:
> > >  After reading these books for many years, racism against Easterners
> > >  seems to be a common motif.
> > >
> > >  But then I got to thinking, what about racism within the Dragaerans
> > >  themselves?
> >
> > I have to believe it is extremely pervasive - after all it is ingrained
> > that there are very real biological differences between the character of
> > people from various Dragaeran races.
> >
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>Hmm, so the violence inherent in the system (heh) may not be 
>psychologically
>based, but biologically based due to different species competing in the 
>same
>ecosystem for resources. Thus the characteristic behaviors may be a
>combination of genetic traits, and survivability traits to fit in specific
>ecological niches (which amounts to almost the same thing).
>
>jeff

but are the Dzur and Dragons respectful of one-another (at least as I 
imagine them, I could easily be wrong, but that also could be based on 
1-on-1 accounts (didn't Aliera set up a duel in Yendi with a Dzur? could 
easily be wrong here as well)) because wild dzur are smart enough to leave 
dragons alone and dragons prefer an easy meal (not really something I've 
noticed as a House Trait) or could it be something from when they were 
tribes?

Tribes tend to fight for superiority (I'm not sure how the Pheonix fit in 
here actually; did they gain first place because of Zerika and Dragons get 
placed above Dzurs because of what Kieron did?) so if Dragons and Dzurs 
faced off enough to develop a healthy respect for each other, could that not 
have carried over to now? Did the other houses fall below them in the ladder 
because they were unable to stand up to them? There are a ton of unanswered 
questions (as usual) that Steve could pick up on at some point (and because 
he's the only author I've noticed to actually go after these questions, so 
many more become obvious) which makes this much more fun to speculate on